Pic, which revolves around a housewife who sells tickets for a numbers racket in Manila’s slums, won best film awards from both the Asian Competition and Fipresci juries at the fest’s eighth edition.

The Asian Competition jury, which included vet helmers Stanley Kwan and Ryuichi Hiroki, also presented the actress prize to “Bet Collector’s” star, Gina Pareno. The jury declined to give an actor award.

A special jury prize went to 2005 Turkish film “2 Girls.”

The Indian Competition jury gave its top film award to digital pic “The Cleansing Rites” (Suddha), directed by Ramachandra Pn, while the stars of “Calcutta Unabashed” (Bibar), Tannishta Chatterjee and Subrat Dutta, collected actress and actor gongs, respectively.

The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema jury awarded its prize to Thai meller “Midnight My Love” (Cherm).

Cinefan’s definition of Asia embraces countries from Indonesia to Turkey; in recognition of the Indian diaspora, fest also screened pics from outside Asia such as Murali K. Thalluri’s Australian “2.37” and Varun Khanna’s “American Blend.”